IPC - Publications

The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) publishes regularly issues of Poverty in Focus magazine, One Pagers, Policy Research Briefs, Working Papers and Country Studies to encourage policy debate and dissemination of knowledge on key poverty topics. Please click here to receive IPC publications by e-mail.

Note that IPC has also started publishing special series of Evaluation Notes, Technical Papers, Training Modules, and Conference Papers.

In Focus

Poverty In Focus is the IPC's magazine. Its purpose is to present succinctly the results of recent research on poverty and inequality in a popular format.

 

One Pager

The One Pager is an online publication designed to spark discussion and debate on key poverty issues. It is written in non-technical language for a wide audience.

The Doha Round and Kenya: Good and Not So Good Lessons
One Pager # 102. January 2010.
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Water Supply in Rural Ghana: Do Women Benefit?
One Pager # 101. December 2009.
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Water Privatisation and Renationalisation in Bolivia: Are the Poor Better Off?
One Pager # 100. October 2009.
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Do CCT Programmes Have a Pro-Poor Spillover Effect?
One Pager # 98. September 2009.
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Raindrops for Education: How To Improve Water Access in Schools?
One Pager # 99. September 2009.
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Do Poorer Countries Have Less Capacity for Redistribution?
One Pager # 97. September 2009.
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Do CCTs Lessen the Impact of the Current Economic Crisis? Yes, but...
One Pager # 96. September 2009.
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The Global Economic Crisis Hampers Human Development. How?
One Pager # 95. September 2009.
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Conservation and Ecotourism in Brazil and Mexico: The Development Impact
One Pager # 94. September 2009.
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One Instrument, Many Targets: Timor-Leste’s Macroeconomic Policy Challenge
One Pager # 93. August 2009.
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Can Low-Income Countries Adopt Counter-Cyclical Policies?
One Pager # 92. August 2009.
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Social Cash Transfers in Zambia: What Is Their Impact?
One Pager # 91. August 2009.
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Do CCT Programmes Work in Low-Income Countries?
One Pager # 90. July 2009.
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What Explains the Decline in Brazil’s Inequality?
One Pager # 89. July 2009.
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Age and Gender Bias in Workloads During the Lifecycle: Evidence from Rural Ghana
One Pager # 88. July 2009.
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Towards an MDG-Consistent Debt Sustainability Concept
One Pager # 87. July 2009.
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The Indonesian Response to the Financial and Economic Crisis: Is the Developmental State Back?
One Pager # 86. June 2009.
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What Is the Impact of Cash Transfers on Labour Supply?
One Pager # 85. June 2009.
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The 2015 Debt Crisis
One Pager # 84. May 2009.
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HIV and Income Inequality: If There Is a Link, What Does It Tell Us?
One Pager # 83. April 2009.
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Is the Washington Consensus Dead?
One Pager # 82. April 2009.
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How Does the Financial Crisis Affect Developing Countries?
One Pager # 81. April 2009.
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Confronting Crises: Learning From Labour Markets in the Past
One Pager # 80. March 2009.
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Impact Is Not Enough: Image and CCT Sustainability in Nicaragua
One Pager # 79. March 2009.
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The Rich Expand, the Poor Contract. The Paradox of Macroeconomic Policy in Ethiopia
One Pager # 78. March 2009.
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South-South Cooperation in Times of Global Economic Crisis
One Pager # 76. February 2009.
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Is the South Ready for South-South Cooperation?
One Pager # 77. February 2009.
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Why Aid Does Not Increase Savings Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa?
One Pager # 75. February 2009.
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What Impact Does Inflation Targeting Have on Unemployment?
One Pager # 74. February 2009.
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Eliminating Gender Inequalities Reduces Poverty. How?
One Pager # 73. November 2008.
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Free Access to Primary Data Should Be a Right
One Pager # 72. November 2008.
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Cash Transfers and Child Labour: An Intriguing Relationship
One Pager # 71. November 2008.
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Are the Cheetahs Tracking the Tigers? Probing High Growth Rates in Africa
One Pager # 70. November 2008.
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Where the Line is Drawn. A Rejoinder to Ravallion
One Pager # 69. October 2008.
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Can we Accurately Project MDG Indicators?
One Pager # 68. October 2008.
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The Macroeconomics of Scaling-Up Aid: What We Know in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia
One Pager # 67. September 2008.
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Global Poverty Reassessed: A Reply to Reddy
One Pager # 66. September 2008.
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The New Global Poverty Estimates – Digging Deeper into a Hole
One Pager # 65. September 2008.
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Is the Conditionality Necessary in Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes? Evidence from Mexico
One Pager # 64. August 2008.
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A Global Realignment by 2020: U.S. Decline, Emerging Economies Rise
One Pager # 63. July 2008.
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The Global Benefits and Losses from The U.S. Recession and Recovery Package
One Pager # 62. July 2008.
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Where Are the Jobs that Take People Out of Poverty in Brazil?
One Pager # 61. July 2008.
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New York’s Brand-new Conditional Cash Transfer Programme: What if it Succeeds?
One Pager # 60. July 2008.
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Equitable Access to Financial Services: Is Microfinancing Sufficient?
One Pager # 59. July 2008.
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What Do We Mean by “Feminization of Poverty”?
One Pager # 58. July 2008.
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Tariff Hikes with Low Investment: The Story of the Urban Water Sector in Zambia
One Pager # 57. June 2008.
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Lessons from the South African Electricity Crisis
One Pager # 56. June 2008.
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Equitable Access to Basic Services: Who will Guarantee it?
One Pager # 55. June 2008.
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A Consistent Measure of Real Poverty: A Reply to Ravallion
One Pager # 54. May 2008.
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Which Poverty Line? A Response to Reddy
One Pager # 53. May 2008.
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Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?
One Pager # 52. May 2008.
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Inflation-Targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Why Now? Why at All?
One Pager # 51. April 2008.
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The Urgent Need for Financial Reform to Mobilise Savings in Sub-Saharan Africa
One Pager # 50. March 2008.
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Latin America’s Progress on Gender Equality: Poor Women Workers Are Still Left Behind
One Pager # 49. February 2008.
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Is Financial Liberalization a Flop? An Africa Assessment
One Pager # 48. February 2008.
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Conditional Cash Transfers: Why Targeting and Conditionalities Could Fail
One Pager # 47. December 2007.
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Wage Cutting in Kenya Will Expand Poverty, Not Decent Jobs
One Pager # 46. December 2007.
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Pro-Poor Growth: Though a Contested Marriage, Still a Premature Divorce
One Pager # 45. November 2007.
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‘Growing Pains’: Key Challenges for New Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Latin America
One Pager # 44. November 2007.
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The Fiscal Impact of Aid Flows: Evidence from Ethiopia
One Pager # 43. September 2007.
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Why Have Tax Reforms Hampered MDG Financing?
One Pager # 42. September 2007.
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Job Creation versus Cash Transfers in Kenya
One Pager # 41. August 2007.
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Should Khat Be Banned? The Development Impact
One Pager # 40. July 2007.
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Raising Domestic Revenue for the MDGs: Why Wait until 2015?
One Pager # 39. July 2007.
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Correcting Global Imbalances with Exchange Rate Realignment? No thanks!
One Pager # 38. June 2007.
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Using ODA to Accumulate Foreign Reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa
One Pager # 37. June 2007.
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Can all Cash Transfers Reduce Inequality?
One Pager # 36. May 2007.
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The IMF and Constraints on Spending Aid
One Pager # 35. May 2007.
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Why Is Africa Constrained from Spending ODA?
One Pager # 34. May 2007.
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MDG Targets: Misunderstood or Misconceived?
One Pager # 33. April 2007.
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Debating the Provision of Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Response to Nellis
One Pager # 32. April 2007.
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Privatising Basic Utilities in Africa: a Rejoinder
One Pager # 31. April 2007.
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The Gross Inequities of Global Imbalances
One Pager # 30. February 2007.
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Why Not ‘Front-load’ ODA for HIV/Aids?
One Pager # 29. February 2007.
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MDGs: Misunderstood Targets?
One Pager # 28. January 2007.
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Has there been any Social Mobility for Non-Whites in Brazil?
One Pager # 27. January 2007.
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What is poverty? Good Question
One Pager # 26. December 2006.
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Old-Age Poverty and Social Pensions in Kenya
One Pager # 25. November 2006.
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Are Improving Terms of Trade Helping Reduce Poverty in Africa?
One Pager # 24. November 2006.
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Inequality and the Education MDG for Latin America
One Pager # 23. October 2006.
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What is Poverty?
One Pager # 22. September 2006.
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Do CCTs Reduce Poverty?
One Pager # 21. September 2006.
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The Gender Pay Gap over Women's Working Lifetime
One Pager # 20. June 2006.
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Women's earning power and wellbeing
One Pager # 19. April 2006.
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Headcount Poverty Comparisons
One Pager # 18. November 2005.
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Three models of social protection
One Pager # 17. October 2005.
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India needs an Employment Guarantee Scheme
One Pager # 16. August 2005.
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Leaky Bucket
One Pager # 15. June 2005.
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Vietnam: Jobs, Growth & Poverty
One Pager # 14. May 2005.
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Chinese Boxes: whatever happened to poverty reduction?
One Pager # 13. April 2005.
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Ending world poverty: is the debate settled?
One Pager # 12. March 2005.
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The challenge of pro-poor growth in Uganda
One Pager # 11. February 2005.
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Birth control and poverty in South America
One Pager # 10. January 2005.
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Defining pro-poor growth
One Pager # 9. January 2005.
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Measuring poverty: what's in the line?
One Pager # 8. December 2004.
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Slipping into poverty: a neglected issue in anti-poverty strategies
One Pager # 7. December 2004.
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Pro-poor growth: finding the Holy Grail
One Pager # 6. December 2004.
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Generic or brand drugs for HIV-AIDS? Southern Africa examples
One Pager # 5. November 2004.
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Defining pro-poor growth: a response to Kakwani
One Pager # 4. November 2004.
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Conditional Cash Transfer: a vaccine against poverty and inequality?
One Pager # 3. October 2004.
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Methods in measuring poverty matter: an Indian story.
One Pager # 2. September 2004.
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Pro-poor growth: what is it?
One Pager # 1. January 2004.
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Policy Research Brief

The Policy Research Brief is a new four-page easily readable IPC publication that presents major policy lessons drawn from our research in a particular area.

The Macro-Micro Nexus in Scaling-Up Aid: The Case of HIV and AIDS Control in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia
. Policy Research Brief # 11. January 2009.
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Utility Provision: Contract Design in the Interest of the Poor
. Policy Research Brief # 10. December 2008.
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Banking the Un-Banked: Improving Access to Financial Services
. Policy Research Brief # 9. October 2008.
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Reforming Without Resourcing: The Case of the Urban Water Supply in Zambia
. Policy Research Brief # 8. September 2008.
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The Vast Majority Income (VMI): A New Measure of Global Inequality
. Policy Research Brief # 7. May 2008.
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Pro-Growth Alternatives for Monetary and Financial Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
. Policy Research Brief # 6. January 2008.
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Policymakers Beware: The Use and Misuse of Regressions in Explaining Economic Growth
. Policy Research Brief # 5. November 2007.
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The Macroeconomic Implications of MDG-Based Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa
. Policy Research Brief # 4. October 2007.
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Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: The MDG Impact
. Policy Research Brief # 3. January 2007.
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The Unresolved Land Reform Debate: Beyond State-Led or Market-Led Models
. Policy Research Brief # 2. November 2006.
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The Macroeconomic Debate on Scaling up HIV/AIDS Financing
. Policy Research Brief # 1. September 2006.
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Working Papers

Working Papers are the IPC's main research publication. They disseminate findings from in-depth research.

The Implications of Water and Electricity Supply for the Time Allocation of Women in Rural Ghana
. Working Paper # 59. December 2009.
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From Social Safety net to Social Policy? The Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Welfare State Development in Latin America
. Working Paper # 60. December 2009.
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Privatisation and Renationalisation: What Went Wrong in Bolivia’s Water Sector?
. Working Paper # 58. October 2009.
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Access to Water in the Slums of the Developing World
. Working Paper # 57. June 2009.
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The Impact of Inflation Targeting on Unemployment in Developing and Emerging Economies
. Working Paper # 56. June 2009.
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Private Sector Participation in African Infrastructure: Is it Worth the Risk?
. Working Paper # 55. May 2009.
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HIV and Income Inequality: If There is a Link, What Does It Tell Us?
. Working Paper # 54. April 2009.
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The Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Developing Countries
. Working Paper # 53. April 2009.
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The Role of Gender Inequalities in Explaining Income Growth, Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Latin American Countries
. Working Paper # 52. April 2009.
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Changes in Earnings in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: Disentangling the Forces Behind Pro-Poor Change in Labour Markets
. Working Paper # 51. March 2009.
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Aid and Savings in Sub-saharan Africa: Should we Worry about Rising Aid Levels?
. Working Paper # 50. February 2009.
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Opportunity NYC: a Performance-Based conditional Cash Transfer Programme. A Qualitative Analysis
. Working Paper # 49. November 2008.
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Are the MDGs Priority in Development Strategies and Aid Programmes? Only few are!
. Working Paper # 48. October 2008.
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The Recent Impact of Government Transfers on Poverty in Honduras and Alternatives to Enhance their Effects
. Working Paper # 47. August 2008.
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Targeted Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: BPC and the Bolsa Familia
. Working Paper # 46. June 2008.
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Financial Liberalization and Domestic Resource Mobilization in Africa: an Assessment
. Working Paper # 45. April 2008.
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Do Changes in the Labour Market Take Families out of Poverty? Determinants of Exiting Poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Regions
. Working Paper # 44. February 2008.
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Is all Socioeconomic Inequality among Racial Groups in Brazil Caused by Racial Discrimination?
. Working Paper # 43. February 2008.
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Growth, Poverty and Employment in Brazil, Chile and Mexico
. Working Paper # 42. December 2007.
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The Impact of Foreign Aid on Government Spending, Revenue and Domestic Borrowing in Ethiopia
. Working Paper # 41. November 2007.
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Addressing the Employment-Poverty Nexus in Kenya: Comparing Cash-Transfer and Job-Creation Programmes
. Working Paper # 40. October 2007.
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The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant
. Working Paper # 39. September 2007.
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Confronting Capacity Constraints on Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: the cases of El Salvador and Paraguay
. Working Paper # 38. August 2007.
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The Impact of Relative Prices on Welfare and Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2005
. Working Paper # 37. May 2007.
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Distinguishing Chronic Poverty from Transient Poverty in Brazil: Developing a Model for Pseudo-Panel Data
. Working Paper # 36. April 2007.
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Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
. Working Paper # 35. April 2007.
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Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia
. Working Paper # 34. April 2007.
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Measuring the Impact of Price Changes on Poverty
. Working Paper # 33. November 2006.
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The Post-Apartheid Evolution of Earnings Inequality in South Africa, 1995-2004
. Working Paper # 32. October 2006.
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Global Estimates of Pro-Poor Growth
. Working Paper # 31. October 2006.
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Operational Poverty Targeting In Peru – Proxy Means Testing With Non-Income Indicators
. Working Paper # 30. October 2006.
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New Global Poverty Counts
. Working Paper # 29. September 2006.
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A note on measuring unemployment
. Working Paper # 28. September 2006.
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Inter-country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: An Empirical Exercise
. Working Paper # 27. August 2006.
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Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience
. Working Paper # 26. August 2006.
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Chinese Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Assumptions
. Working Paper # 25. July 2006.
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Poverty, Old-Age and Social Pensions in Kenya
. Working Paper # 24. July 2006.
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Addressing Global Imbalances: A Development-Oriented Policy Agenda
. Working Paper # 23. July 2006.
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Can Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Services Help Achieve The MDGs? An Assessment
. Working Paper # 22. July 2006.
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Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: Impacts on Inequality and Poverty
. Working Paper # 21. June 2006.
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Poverty among women in Latin America: Feminization or over-representation?
. Working Paper # 20. May 2006.
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How costly is it to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015?
. Working Paper # 19. May 2006.
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Poverty, inequality and redistribution: A methodology to define the rich
. Working Paper # 18. May 2006.
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Gearing macroeconomic polices to manage large inflows of ODA: The implications for HIV/AIDS programmes
. Working Paper # 17. May 2006.
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Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: An analysis of the BPC – Continuous Cash Benefit Programme
. Working Paper # 16. May 2006.
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Assessing the pro-poorness of government fiscal policy in Thailand
. Working Paper # 15. April 2006.
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Covariates of efficiency in education production among developing pacific-basin and Latin American countries
. Working Paper # 14. April 2006.
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A Capability centred approach to environmental sustainability: Is productive employment the missing link between micro-and macro polices?
. Working Paper # 13. April 2006.
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The monopoly of global capital flows: Who needs structural adjustment now?
. Working Paper # 12. March 2006.
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Measuring the impact of prices on inequality: with applications to Thailand and Korea
. Working Paper # 11. January 2006.
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Why is ‘The Dutch disease’ always a disease? the macroeconomic consequences of scaling up ODA
. Working Paper # 10. November 2005.
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Conditional cash transfers in African countries
. Working Paper # 9. November 2005.
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Ageing and poverty in africa and the role of social pensions
. Working Paper # 8. August 2005.
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The impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil
. Working Paper # 7. June 2005.
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On assessing pro-poorness of government programmes:international comparisons
. Working Paper # 6. May 2005.
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Reorienting development: towards an engendered employment strategy
. Working Paper # 5. February 2005.
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Relative prices and investment: an essay on resource allocation
. Working Paper # 4. January 2005.
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The MDGs and pro-poor polices: related but not synonymous
. Working Paper # 3. November 2004.
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Economic growth and poverty reduction: initial conditions matter
. Working Paper # 2. August 2004.
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Pro-poor growth: concepts and measurement with country case studies
. Working Paper # 1. August 2004.
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Country Study

Country Studies are a new IPC category inaugurated in 2006, focused mostly on Economic Policies, MDGs and Poverty and based on comprehensive UNDP-supported national reports. Click here to see full background reports.

Growth, Inequality, Cash Transfers and Poverty in Uganda
. Country Study # 19. October 2009.
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on The Economy of Sierra Leone
. Country Study # 18. September 2009.
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Nicaragua’s Red de Protección Social: An Exemplary but Short-Lived Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
. Country Study # 17. January 2009.
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Towards an Employment-centred Development Strategy for Poverty Reduction in The Gambia: Macroeconomic and Labour Market Aspects
. Country Study # 16. July 2008.
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Assessing Honduras’ CCT Programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar: Expected and Unexpected Realities
. Country Study # 15. April 2008.
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The Reduction of Fiscal Space in Zambia—Dutch Disease and Tight-Money Conditionalities
. Country Study # 14. January 2008.
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Poverty, Growth and Income Distribution in Lebanon
. Country Study # 13. January 2008.
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A Proposed Strategy for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Uzbekistan
. Country Study # 12. October 2007.
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Moldova’s Middle-Income ‘Mistaken Identity’: The Severe Income and Human Development Costs
. Country Study # 11. October 2007.
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Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Mozambique
. Country Study # 10. September 2007.
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The Challenges of El Salvador’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Red Solidaria
. Country Study # 9. September 2007.
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Expanding the Social Security Net in South Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints
. Country Study # 8. July 2007.
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The Impact of Growth and Redistribution on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa
. Country Study # 7. June 2007.
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Expanding Decent Employment in Kenya: The Role of Monetary Policy, Inflation Control, and the Exchange Rate
. Country Study # 6. March 2007.
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Does Debt Relief Increase Fiscal Space in Zambia? The MDG Implications
. Country Study # 5. September 2006.
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Strengthening the Employment Impact of an MDG-Based Development Strategy for Yemen
. Country Study # 4. September 2006.
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Gearing Public Finance to Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Moldova
. Country Study # 3. July 2006.
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Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform for Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana
. Country Study # 2. June 2006.
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An Employment-targeted Economic Programme for South Africa
. Country Study # 1. June 2006.
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Evaluation Notes

Achievements and Shortfalls of Conditional Cash Transfers: Impact Evaluation of Paraguay’s Tekoporã Programme
. Evaluation Note # 3. March 2008.
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Debating Targeting Methods for Cash Transfers: A Multidimensional Index vs. an Income Proxy for Paraguay’s Tekoporã Programme
. Evaluation Note # 2. January 2008.
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Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective
. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.
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Technical Papers

An Empirical Test of the Poverty Traps Hypothesis
. Technical Paper # 4. August 2008.
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The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Reconsidered
. Technical Paper # 3. June 2008.
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Alternatives for Projecting MDG Indicators
. Technical Paper # 2. April 2008.
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Developing a Global Model for Trade, Finance and Income Distribution
. Technical Paper # 1. February 2007.
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Training Modules

Financial Policy
. Training Module # 3. July 2007.
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Monetary Policy
. Training Module # 2. July 2007.
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Fiscal Policy
. Training Module # 1. July 2007.
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Conference Papers

Scaling-up HIV/AIDS Financing and the Role of Macroeconomic Policies in Kenya
. Conference Paper # 4. June 2007.
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The Fiscal Implications of Scaling up ODA to Deal with the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
. Conference Paper # 3. May 2007.
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Monetary Policies for an MDG-Related Scaling up of ODA to Combat HIV/AIDS:Avoiding Dutch Disease Versus Supporting Fiscal Expansion
. Conference Paper # 2. March 2007.
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Managing the Exchange Rate Consequences of an MDG-Related Scale-up in HIV/AIDS Financing
. Conference Paper # 1. March 2007.
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